14 DAY TRIAL // Following last week’s People magazine interview in which Kate Gosselin brought twins Cara and Mady to speak up for themselves in a bid to convince the worldwide public that they were not “damaged” by reality television, the former TLC star brought them to The Today Show just hours ago.
As the video below will surely confirm, the results were far from as successful as they were in the print interview, pretty much because the twin girls seemed determined not to speak anything at all on the topic.
The start of the interview was ridiculously awkward, to say the least, with both Savannah Guthrie and Kate Gosselin (but especially Kate) fretting in their chairs as the girls kept mum as question after question came their way.
“Mady, your words. It's your chance. Spit it out,” a visibly exasperated Kate says at one point.
“So this is their chance to talk. This is the most wordless I've heard them all morning. Um, I don't want to speak for them. Mady, go ahead, sort of the things that you said in the magazine, that years later they're good, they're fine,” she continues.
And, even though Kate says that she doesn’t want to speak for the girls (after all, that’s why she brought them there, to have the entire world listen to the words coming from their mouth), this is precisely what she does in the next second, when it becomes clear to her that, no matter what, Cara and Mady will not speak.
“They're more aware of what is out there – the inaccuracies, things that are said by the general public, their father, whoever in general – because their friends talk about it at school,” she says.
“So I sort of am forced to kind of inform them. And I think, we talk about it a lot, and the most upset they are is because they get really frustrated that people assume certain things in our house and they always say ‘but that's not how it is, Mommy. Why do they say that about us?’,” Kate continues.
While one of the girls becomes a bit more vocal towards the end of the interview, it’s still Kate who does most of the talking. Useless to point out, if she aimed to show that she’s not the one goading or training her children to say only the right things about their now-defunct reality series, she failed – and gloriously so.